Gun sight



UMEN'YS,

Patented June 17, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GUN SIG HT David Howells, Salt Lake City, Utah Application February 13, 1939, Serial No. 256,115

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a new and greatly improved gun sight for use in shooting after dark.

A further object is to provide a luminous gun sight for use on rifles, pistols, andthe like, which may be folded away out of the way during daytime shooting and utilized as soon as it is dark.

A still further object is to provide a gun sight made of luminous radium type of material, which will glow or give 01f light in the dark, covered with a protecting sheet of glass, Celluloid, or other like material to protect it from being touched or ruined.

These objects I accomplish with the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which similar numerals and letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views and as described in the specification forming a part of this application and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an automatic pistol showingmy sight in use thereon.

Figure 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Figure 1 with only a portion of the barrel being shown sectioned, the view being to look forward on the front sight.

Figure 3 is a like view of the rear sight.

Figure 4 is a side elevation of a modified type of front sight showing a fold down type of luminous sight.

Figure 5 is a rear sight showing a removable plate which plate is coated on the inside face with luminous radium type of material.

Figure 6 is a View of the removable plate removed from the sight, and showing that side of the plate which is luminous.

Figure '7 is a plan view of the sight shown in Figure 4.

In my drawing I have shown my front sight as A, and my rear sight as B, with the piston shown as C. The barrel is shown as D and has the front sight mounted thereto by two raised spaced apart brackets 5 and 6 with the sight 1 adjustably mounted therebetween.

The sight 1 is made tapered toward the front of the barrel and has a pivotally mounted eye sighting piece 8 hingedly connected thereto by the hinge 9. This piece 8 has the surface toward the user covered with a coating of luminous radium type of material adapted to glow in the dark and this coating In is covered by a sheet of transparent material ll such as glass, Celluloid, or other like materials which will protect the coating ID from abuse. This piece 8 is hinged by the hinge 9 to the center of the sight I at the back end and may be turned down on the hinge 9 placing the luminous face thereof toward the sight and not visible to the eye of the user.

The rear sight B is made with the usual cross piece l4 having the usual mounting therefor and on the rear side of the sight I provide my hinged sighting piece l5, said piece l5 extending over the entire upper half of the sight with the central portion cut away identical to the sighting groove of the sight so that when the piece [5 is raised to its uppermost position, as shown in Figure 3. the sight face toward the user is provided with an annular flange around the perimeter holding a sheet of transparent material l6 over the luminous coating ll of the sight. The hinge I8 holds the sight l5 to the sight B and the sight may be folded down as in the case of the front sight when not in use.

The modified type of sight Al shown in Figure 4 shows a sight 2!! having a bead 2| along the top sighting portion thereof for those desiring a head sight and. the front face of this sight is provided with a hinged luminous sight 22 hinged at 23 to the base of the sight with the top bead 24 of the sight 22 provided with a luminous coating covered with a protection face and the entire sight 22 is so tilted down out of the way during daytime shooting by placing the sight 22 in the recess shown dotted as 25 in the sight base 26 or in the top of the barrel of the gun if necessary.

The sights shown in Figures 5 and 6 show a common sight A2 having a removable plate 21 slid down into a dovetail recess 28 in the back face of the sight. This plate 21 is provided with one side plain and the other side covered with a coating of luminous material 29 and protected by a sheet of glass, Celluloid, or like material 290. held in place by a flange 30 or by adhering it directly to the sight plate 21. This plate 21 may be removed and reversed and then reinserted in the recess 28. This provides a multiple sight and the opposite edges of the plate may be provided with different sighting grooves 3|, if, and when desired.

This gives the user a varied sight for daytime and nightime sighting.

Having thus described my invention I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim:

A gun sight comprising a base attaching the sight to the gun barrel, a sight fin extending upwardly from said base, said base having a recess in the top side thereof immediately back of said fin, a first sight mounted on the top of said fin with its visible face of convenitional appearance,

a sight hinged at the junction of the back of said luminous material to protect it from contact fin and base and adapted to be pivoted into said when elevated said material being protected by recess when not in use, a head on said hinged the recess when the hinged sight is pivoted into sight covered with luminous material and obscursaid recess.

ing said first sight when in the elevated posi- 5 DAVID HOWELLS. tion, and transparent material covering said 

